PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

What is an Adjective? Adjectives are, quite simply, descriptive words. An adjective is a word which
qualifies a noun, that is, shows or points out some distinguishing mark or feature of the noun.
Glancing at the following list of personality adjectives clarifies the meaning and function of other
common adjectives.

List of Descriptive Adjectives:

Descriptive adjectives can be divided into different categories such as colors, sizes, sound, taste,
touch, shapes, qualities, time, ages and also personality adjectives. The following list of adjectives
describing personality:

Positive Personality Adjectives:

The following positive Personality Adjectives are in common use in the English language. Negative
personality adjectives are listed in a separate table below:
Positive Personality Adjectives
A-E
Personality
Adjectives
adaptable
adorable
agreeable
alert
alluring
ambitious
amused
boundless
brave
bright
calm
capable
charming
cheerful
coherent
comfortable
confident
cooperative
courageous
credible
cultured
dashing
dazzling

E-P
Personality
Adjectives
exuberant
fabulous
fair
faithful
fantastic
fearless
fine
frank
friendly
funny
generous
gentle
glorious
good
happy
harmonious
helpful
hilarious
honorable
impartial
industrious
instinctive
jolly

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P-Z
Personality
Adjectives
productive
protective
proud
punctual
quiet
receptive
reflective
relieved
resolute
responsible
rhetorical
righteous
romantic
sedate
seemly
selective
self-assured
sensitive
shrewd
silly
sincere
skillful
smiling

debonair
decisive
decorous
delightful
detailed
determined
diligent
discreet
dynamic
eager
efficient
elated
eminent
enchanting
encouraging
endurable
energetic
entertaining
enthusiastic
excellent
excited
exclusive

joyous
kind
kind-hearted
knowledgeable
level
likeable
lively
lovely
loving
lucky
mature
modern
nice
obedient
painstaking
peaceful
perfect
placid
plausible
pleasant
pleasant
plucky

splendid
steadfast
stimulating
successful
succinct
talented
thoughtful
thrifty
tough
trustworthy
unbiased
unusual
upbeat
vigorous
vivacious
warm
willing
wise
witty
wonderful
zany
zealous

Positive Personality Adjectives

Negative Personality Adjectives

The following positive Personality Adjectives are in common use in the English language. Negative
personality adjectives are listed in a separate table below:
Negative Personality Adjectives
A-F
Personality
Adjectives
abrasive
abrupt
abusive
afraid
aloof
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F-R
Personality
Adjectives
fierce
filthy
finicky
flashy
flippant
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R-W
Personality
Adjectives
ruthless
sad
scary
secretive
selfish

ambiguous
angry
annoyed
anxious
arrogant
ashamed
awful
bad
belligerent
bewildered
boorish
bored
boring
callous
careless
clumsy
combative
confused
cowardly
crazy
creepy
cruel
cynical
dangerous
deceitful
defeated
defective
defiant
demonic
depressed
deranged
disagreeable
disillusioned
disturbed
domineering
draconian
embarrassed
envious
erratic
evasive
evil
faded
fanatical

foolish
forgetful
frantic
fretful
frightened
furtive
greedy
grieving
grouchy
gruesome
grumpy
guarded
gullible
helpless
hesitant
homeless
horrible
hungry
hurt
ignorant
ill
irresolute
jealous
jittery
lacking
lazy
lonely
malicious
materialistic
mean
mysterious
naive
nasty
naughty
nervous
noisy
obnoxious
outrageous
panicky
pathetic
possessive
quarrelsome
repulsive

silly
slow
sneaky
snobbish
sore
spendthrift
squeamish
stingy
strange
sulky
tacky
tense
terrible
testy
thick-skinned
thoughtless
threatening
tight
timid
tired
tiresome
troubled
truculent
typical
undesirable
unsuitable
unsure
upset
uptight
vague
vengeful
venomous
volatile
voracious
vulgar
wary
wasteful
weak
weary
wicked
worried
worthless
wretched

Negative Personality Adjectives

Examples of Personality Descriptions:

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FICHA 663421

Mizuho is a very misunderstood figure. She places on a mask of indifference and uncaring, and
this cold shell is what most see. She tries to ignore her emotions in any official case, fearing that
she is too soft, and unfit for her responsibilities. Beneath it all, she is a warm person with perhaps
too much sympathy. Very few know her true self, and few ever will. She is simply too protective of
her own self-doubts.
Hanako is extremely kind, caring, thoughtful and eager to please. She is very submissive and
strongly prefers others to command her but is capable of autonomous activity. Hanako is generally
very quiet, especially in the presence of her superiors. She enjoys caring for people, especially Yui
and children. She doesn't just act loyal and submissive, but rather is loyal and submissive to her
mistress and the friends thereof.
Henry likes his chosen career, but he is not an ambitious person by far. His personality tends to
make him blend in rather than stand out, which suits him just fine. An introvert, he rarely seems
interested in socializing. It is therefore not surprising that Henry does not have many friends,
although he is very loyal and forgiving to the ones that he has. However, even when a complete
stranger challenges him to a round of a computer game that he likes, his friends can see his one
organic eye light up with excitement.

PERSONALITY TYPES

Instructions: Listen to each sentence describing a personality type (for example, "A
person who is happy"). Then choose the word that describes that personality type
("cheerful" in this example)

1. LISTEN

3. LISTEN

A. selfish

A. spoiled

B. interesting

B. clever

C. generous

C. easygoing

2. LISTEN

4. LISTEN

A. comical

A. punctual

B. honest

B. bland

C. ungrateful

C. skeptical

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5. LISTEN

A. childish

A. bigmouth

B. nasty

B. depressing

C. cultured

C. pushy

6. LISTEN

9. LISTEN

A. talented

A. creative

B. brilliant

B. timid

C. inconsiderate

C. narrow-minded

7. LISTEN
A. sloppy

10. LISTEN

B. frank

A. forgetful

C. helpless

B. ambitious
C. disorganized

8. LISTEN

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FICHA 663421

2. Describe your own personality.

I am a responsible person, though occasionally in the daily housework Im lazy, when it
teamed I am a cooperative and enthusiastic person, I consider myself a friendly and gentle
person and sometimes a little forgetful, from time to when I'm discreet, secretive and unsure
when it comes to make difficult decisions, and my best friends consider me according to
them an adorable and cheerful person, although I'm not sure whether I really like that,
because I consider a person take things calmly.